Fansided · Jul 17, 2023
NBA Draft: End the Lottery and create a Draft Tournament
Please end the NBA Draft Lottery and create a Draft tournament.
The NBA Draft Lottery has been bad for the Detroit Pistons. Despite having the worst record in the league, the Pistons fell to fifth, their lowest possible position in the draft and the largest fall by a team with the league’s worst record since the NBA adopted the weighted lottery in 1990. The Pistons have, simply put, the worst lottery luck of any NBA team.
Why not take the ball out of the ping-pong machine and put it in the Pistons’ hands?
I hate tanking, and I agree with my colleague, who first suggested a similar idea, that the NBA Draft Lottery is a middle finger to fans.